PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Bazzmand Show said:
A salary cap isn't exactly a new concept, it's used in pretty much every other major sporting code around the world to good effect.
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Is it? Trying to think of a major and international sport that uses a salary cap? Not trying to be a smart-arse here by the way, and I am sure there must be some, I just genuinely don't know, or care, enough about other sports to be aware of one .....
 
halfcenturyup said:
Is it? Trying to think of a major and international sport that uses a salary cap? Not trying to be a smart-arse here by the way, and I am sure there must be some, I just genuinely don't know, or care, enough about other sports to be aware of one .....
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I can't make up my mind about a salary cap. If one was introduced in isolation to any other changes it would be damaging to the sport and especially the Premier League. What I would support is some way of ring-fencing a percentage of the money paid out by clubs to players, and also by broadcasters, to be distributed to grass-roots football or lower leagues.
There has also been talk of a transfer fee "tax" to help lower leagues. If it was a percentage of the fee it would mean that the big spending clubs would provide the most to grass roots football. It could even used to help reduce ticket prices for matchgoing fans. There is a huge amount of wealth in football and some it should be trickled down to paying supporters and communities.
 
Bazzmand Show said:
A salary cap isn't exactly a new concept, it's used in pretty much every other major sporting code around the world to good effect.
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Name a sporting code which has multiple national leagues. The insinuation is that it’s fair and equal so it can’t be based on the big 4 leagues salaries as that makes it unfair. We also know the main protagonists don’t want it fair, they want an economic advantage without being disadvantaged by others.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I can't make up my mind about a salary cap. If one was introduced in isolation to any other changes it would be damaging to the sport and especially the Premier League. What I would support is some way of ring-fencing a percentage of the money paid out by clubs to players, and also by broadcasters, to be distributed to grass-roots football or lower leagues.
There has also been talk of a transfer fee "tax" to help lower leagues. If it was a percentage of the fee it would mean that the big spending clubs would provide the most to grass roots football. It could even used to help reduce ticket prices for matchgoing fans. There is a huge amount of wealth in football and some it should be trickled down to paying supporters and communities.
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It's a bit if a dilemma isn't it? Everyone thinks top footballers earn an obscene amount of money and a lot of that money would be better kept within the game through, as you say, more investment in grass roots football.

But we all know that isn't the rationale behind it. It is to stop teams making the most money hoovering up the best players. Not a bad motivation, per se. But where do these teams making the most money get it from? From being successful in competitions that give huge rewards to the few clubs participating. So what do we want? Huge rewards with a salary cap and more money to grass roots football? Or less rewards for participating, with more money going to grass roots football at source without the need for a salary cap (especially given that now total salary costs are capped as a % of revenues anyway).

I am pretty sure the big clubs don't want the latter, and understandably so from their point of view, but from a neutral's or a fan's point of view, and possibly a legal point of view, surely it is the better solution?
 
halfcenturyup said:
It's a bit if a dilemma isn't it? Everyone thinks top footballers earn an obscene amount of money and a lot of that money would be better kept within the game through, as you say, more investment in grass roots football.

But we all know that isn't the rationale behind it. It is to stop teams making the most money hoovering up the best players. Not a bad motivation, per se. But where do these teams making the most money get it from? From being successful in competitions that give huge rewards to the few clubs participating. So what do we want? Huge rewards with a salary cap and more money to grass roots football? Or less rewards for participating, with more money going to grass roots football at source without the need for a salary cap (especially given that now total salary costs are capped as a % of revenues anyway).

I am pretty sure the big clubs don't want the latter, and understandably so from their point of view, but from a neutral's or a fan's point of view, and possibly a legal point of view, surely it is the better solution?
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Has the legality of salary caps ever been tested in UK, EU?
 
Why the sudden breaking of ranks from the scumbag UK media?
Nothing for a few months then the pile on starts again.
I get they’re desperately trying to destabilise the club at the behest of their red shirted paymasters just as we look like finishing the season gloriously.
Probably wishful thinking but, as Khaldoon once said the football world is a small place, could there be whispers about an amicable end to all of this. Hope not because the innuendo would ramp up to 11. Smash this shite once and for all.
You would hope if this was the case then the club would strike back at the haters for once.
 
KS55 said:
Has the legality of salary caps ever been tested in UK, EU?
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A very relevant question to which I have no answer.

You know, I wonder if Ceferin wasn't just being polite to his US hosts in his answer to the question, as he was, in my opinion, with his answer about CL games in the US.

He couldn't say "no, what a stupid fucking idea" to the second question, and I suppose he couldn't say "you have no idea what you are talking about" to the first, either.
 
Luca1894 said:
Oh yeah, we can expect a deluge of this sort of shizzle, dripping with same old clichéd bollocks....

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What the actual fuck! :-/

To be honest, I'm past caring. I just wanna ram their taunts up their arseholes, & kill em with constipation!

It's like this dude is desperate for a return to the old Sky Four days, where upstarts like City knew their place. They make me sick!
 
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